Posts Tagged ‘ants’
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Bill and I have been talking for a while about signing up Madison for soccer. She’s only 4, but we have a net in the yard. She’s actually pretty good (this coming from a person who actually played soccer in high school) for a 4 year old. She knows how the goalie throws the ball. She even knows how to dribble the ball. Yet, Bill and I haven’t worked on either skill with her, so we are not sure where she learned them. The only thing (and I laugh every time she does it) she does wrong is that she has to set herself before she kicks a goal.
Well, today we signed her up for a semi-local soccer place. Its a tad more expensive than say the park district, but the class ratio is better. Plus, it has open enrollment. We went to our first class today, and she loved it!!! She literally ran around for 50 minutes (if she can keep this up, she’ll never need anti wrinkle cream since exercise helps keep those away). Her skills were better than some of the other kids who have been there the entire session! One of the little games they played was called Ants and Dogs (you had to keep from being tagged), and Madison won!
We signed up for the rest of this session. We’ll see how it goes, and maybe Madison can play all summer!
Tags: ants, dogs, exercise, first_class, how_to_dribble, little_games, open_enrollment, session_one, soccer_in_high_school, tad, wrinkle_cream
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
This Weeks Hero Was Suggested By Mary Ann
Spc. Jeffrey Jamaleldine
Company C, 1st Battalion, 77th Armor
“How can I say to my sons, stand up for something, fight for what you think is right, if I don’t do anything myself?”
The Jeffrey Jamaleldine that you speak to today is a complete 180 from the Jeffrey Jamaleldine that you would have spoke to in the past. In 1991, Jamaleldin was living in Germany when joined in anti-American protests on Berlin’s Kurfürstendamm boulevard during Operation Desert Storm. “That was the way it was back then,” he says. He was 15 and “America was simply the enemy.” And today, Jeffery Jamaleldine is a wounded veteran of the U.S. Army. On June 6, 2005, after the terror bombing in Madrid, Spain, in the middle of the Iraq war, he showed up at the U.S. Army recruiting office in Little Rock, Arkansas, to enlist. His father, Bashir, told him at the time: “Son, this won’t be a picnic.”
On June 30, Jamaleldine was on patrol in Ramadi, Iraq. The patrol ahead of him had been ambushed by at least 70 combatants and were now under fire. During the fight, Spc. Jeffrey Jamaleldine was hit in the face by a bullet. In the end, the battle lasted into the next morning and the soldiers were able to stop the enemy from returning to Ramadi.
The article on Spc. Jeffrey Jamaleldine is five pages long, and I simply can not condense it down to only a few paragraphs. You can read the entire story here.
These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived
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Tags: 30, ack, adi, ants, battalion, blog, Blogroll, blogs, blogspot, bush, comb, dd, eed, eve, freedoms, germany, god, hero, ied, images, ing, ira, iraq, livi, logs, morning, mp, nin, ot, paragraph, poke, protest, ramadi, recruit, rig, ror, sacrifice, soldier, spa, ted, ter, time, vet, veteran, wh
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Well, we got them majority of stuff out of the basement over the weekend. Now, we just have a pile of trash and a few boxes that need to go out. I am calling for the dumpster this week. We are planning to demo the one room that is down there this weekend. Once we do that, we are going to work on our floor plan (I want to add another bathroom down there and Bill wants to add a home office). I want the basement finished by Will’s 1st birthday (June 7th). Besides the above rooms, Bill needs to rerun the electric, we need to rerun the venting, and we need to add drywall. We have a lot of work ahead of us.
We also bought a new stove, but that’s for a post a little later (so I can get a picture).
Tags: alli, ants, basement, Bill, birthday, dd, demo, drywall, eed, flo, home, ing, mp, nin, ot, pda, picture, rerun, ter, trash, vent, weekend
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
Another reason I am pretty sure Madison feels better is that every commercial that comes across the TV she has told us that she wants that. It does not matter if it is toys, a purse, or a tool for the yard. She wants it. I have a feeling that this may get worse before it gets better. At least at this point, she only wants the stuff and doesn’t get disappointed when she doesn’t get it.
Tags: adi, ants, bet, commercials, disappoint, disappointed, eve, game, games, ing, kids, madison, nin, ot, ted, ter, toys, wh, ya
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
Who wants a cookie? I know that I always could go for a cookie no matter when it is. However, I think I own one cookie recipe (actually make that two because I have a chocolate chip recipe and a Christmas cookie recipe). Bill and the kids get bored of my one chocolate chip recipe and are constantly bugging me that I should find some new cookie recipes. I think I found the site to solve all my cookie problems.
Popular Cookie Recipes is the site to go to when you are looking for the best cookie recipes. I also learned some cool facts about cookies that I am definitely going to be using in my next Trivia Pursuit game. Did you know that the first cookies were really miniature cakes used to test oven temperatures before the baker cooked the final cake? There is a long history that follows the cookie that I never would have guessed that I learned tonight. Anybody want to challenge me?
The real reason I wanted to check out the cookie site was for the recipes and I was not disappointed. All the recipes listed are super easy to make and hard to screw up. You know, my type of recipe. I looked at everything from the Chocolate Chip Recipe to Snickerdoodle Recipe to the Gingerbread Recipe. I think I could handle all of them.
The more I keep talking about cookies, the hungrier I keep getting. Needless to say, I think I am baking some cookies tonight. Anybody want to join me?
Tags: acts, ants, Bill, bore, chocolate, christmas, constantly, disappoint, disappointed, eed, eve, game, guess, heck, ing, ip, kids, love, mak, mp, nick, ot, prob, recipes, screw, target, ted, ter, wh
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